Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1887-11-12

ness that have been opened before me
were opened by enemies. And when, years
ago, they conspired against me, that
opened all Christendom to me as field in
which to preach the Gospel. So you may
harness your antagonists to your best in
terests and compel them to draw you on to
better work and higher character. Sup
pose, instead of waiting until six minutes
past o'clock this evening, when the sun
will set, you transact this glorious work of
/ forgiveness before meridian.
Again, we ought not to let the sun 90
down on our wrath, because we will sleep
Insomnia is getting to be one of the most
prevalent of disorders. How few people
retire at 10 o'clock al night and sleep clear
through to in the morning! To relieve
this disorder all narcotics, and sedatives,
and chloral, and bromide Of potassium,
and cocaine, and intoxicants are used, but
nothing is more important than q quiet
spirit it We would win somnolenoe. How
is man going to sleep when he 10 in mind
pursuing an enemy? With what nervous
witch he will start out Of dream! That
new plan Tor cornering his foe will keep
him wide awake while the clock strikes IL,
IL, l, 2, 8, 4. give you an unfailing pre-
scription for wakefulness: spend the even
ing hours rehearsing your wrongs and the
best way Of avenging them. Hold q con-
vention OF friends on this subject in your
parlor or Office at or o'clock. Close the
evening by writing bitter letter, EXPRESS
ing your sentiments. Take from the desk
or pigeon.hole the papers In the case to re-
fresh your mind with your evenings mean
ness. Then lie down and wait for the
coming of day, and it will come before
sleep comes, or your sleep will be worried
quiescence. and, if you take the precaution
to lie fiat on your back frightful night
mare. Why not put bound to your ami
mosity2 Why let you, foes come into the
sanctities of your dormitory? Why let
those slanderers who have already torn
your reputation to pieces or injured your
business, bend over your midnight pillow
and drive from you one of the greatest
blessings that God can offer-sweet, re-
freshing, all invigorating sleep? Why not
fence out your enemies by the golden bars
of the sunset? Why not stand behind the
barricade of evening cloud and say to
them: "Thus far and no farther?" Many
a man and many q woman is having the
health of body az we'll as the health of
soul eaten away by q malevolent spirit. /
have in time of religious awakening had
persons night after night come into the in
quiry room and get no peace of soul. After
while have bluntly asked her: as there
not some one against whom you have a
hatred that you are not willing to give up?"
After little confusion she has slightly
whispered, Eyes" Then I said to her:
"You will never find peace with God as
long as you retain that virulence."
A boy in Sparta, having stolen fox,
kept him under his coat, and, though the
fox was gnawing his vitals, he submitted
to it rather than expose his misdeed.
Many a man with a smiling face has under.
his jacket an animal that is gnawing away
the strength of his body and the integrity
of his soul. Better get rid of that hidden
fox as soon az possible. There are hum
dreds of domestic circles where that which
most is needed is the spirit of forgiveness.
Brothers apart, and sisters apart, and par
ents and children apart. Solomon says q
brother offended is harder to be won than
q strong city. Are there notenoueh sacred
memories of your childhood to bring you
together? The rabbins recount how that
Nebuchadnezzars son had such spite
against his father that after he was dead
he had his father burned to ashes, and then
put the ashes into four sacks, and tied
them to four eagles necks which few away
in opposite directions. And there are now
domestic antipathies which seem forever
to have scattered all parental memories to
the four winds Of Heaven. How far the
eagles fly with sacred ashes! The hour of
shutdown makes to that family no practical
suggestion. Thomas Carlyle, in his
biography of Frederick the Great, says the
old King was told by his confessor he must
be at peace with his enemies if he wanted
to enter Heaven. Then he said 10 his
wife, the Queen. "Write to your brother
after am dead that forgive him" Roloff,
the confessor, said: "Her majesty had
better write him immediately" "No, "said
the King, "after am dead; that will be
safer" So he let the sun of his earthly
1istence 20 down upon his wrath.
Again: We ought not TO allow the sun
set before forgiveness takes place; because |
We might not live to see another day. And |
what if we should be ushered into the |
presence of our Maker with Rrudge upon
our soul? The majority Of people depart |
this life in the night. Between II o'clock |
p. m. and 8 o'clock a. m. there is some-
thing in the atmosphere which relaxes the |
grip which the body has on the soul, and |
most of the people enter the next world |
through the shadows of this world. Per-
haps God may have arranged it in that way
SO aa to make the contrast the more |
glorious. / have seen sunshiny days in
this world that must have been almost like |
the radiance of Heaven. But as most peo- |
pie leave the earth between shutdown and
sunrise, they quit this world at its darkest,
and Heaven, always bright, will be the
brighter for that contrast. Out Of black
ness into irradiation. Shall we then leap
over the roseate bank of sunset into the
favorite hunting ground of disease and
death, carrying our animosities with us?
Who would want to confront his God,
against whom we have all done meaner
things than anybody has ever done against
Us, carrying old grudges? How IAN we
expect his forgiveness for the greater wheD
we are not willing to forgive others the
less? Napoleon was encouraged to under.
take the crossing of the Alps because
Nharlemagne had previously crossed Their
And all this rugged path of forgiveness
bears the bleeding footsteps of Him who
conquered through suffering, and We ought
10 be willing to follow. On the night Of
our departure from this life into the next,
our one plea will have to be offered in the
presence of Him who has said: "If you